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I'm adding sync record to my hardware controller(s) so that when you press Record/Stop it will simultaneously start and stop both the camera and the external audio recorder so that you A) Don't have to do it yourself B) Have better matched files to make post sync easier (i.e. no bunches of 30 second video clips with only 1 long audio clip because you left it running) and, of course, C) So in the excitement of putting the camera in record you don't actually end up forgetting to put the audio into record . If you have any of the Tascam recorders that can be controlled with their RC10 wired remote then you are covered as I've just finished incorporating that already. For everything else, I'm just trying to gauge the popularity of them so I can prioritise them accordingly. At the moment, I'm just looking at ones that have a wired control input (tenuous but doable for SoundDevices and Roland) but IR isn't totally out of the question. If you have a few recorders then feel free to select them all. Thanks in advance.

Cokin do a little adapter to use their A series filters with compact cameras that might be come in useful for you for this problem. It attaches to the tripod mount of the camera and has various lanes you can put it in to move it front and back. I suspect it might not be long enough to put the filter far enough forward with those lenses but its trivial to extend it out with a piece of aluminium etc. A Series filters cover equivalent of up to 67mm filter thread so will be fine for anything up to there and the holder takes 3 of them. Obviously, once you have Cokin A series filters you get access not only to their workman stuff like NDs and grads etc but also to their classic 70s and 80s soft porn toolkits !

A pair of the flat type over ear headphones with enough grunt could do the trick as well where you just cut the left one off with a pair scissors. We could market it as the Van Gogh solution.

Oh, the internal speakers... [EDIT] Erases link to 3.5mm stereo to 2 mono jacks cable and inline attenuator. [EDIT] Though come to think of it you could fake it by using that cable to come out of the headphone socket (which I presume mutes the internal speakers) and then attach the right split to a tiny speaker.

Yeah, it ends up with people having to remember loads of key combos like they're playing StreetFighter or Tekken ! I prefer discrete switches per function if possible. The ideal would be to have two rotary entry wheels like DSLRs on the index and middle finger positions for aperture and ISO. I think the record switch should actually be on the thumb position. I dunno. I've got the handle apart at least so thats progress !

Wow, those type are usually $100 cheaper than that one! I'm looking to put quite a few more switches on so I'm interested in what people would find most useful. I don't want it to end up like an F1 steering wheel but I think Record One Shot AF Aperture Up Aperture Down ISO Up ISO Down WB (step through rather than up down) Would be a good starting point and not get too cluttered. Focus is maybe better as a different module. It would also incorporate sync record start of Tascam recorders and I'm looking at similar for the Zoom ones with wired remote too. Mainly got an eye on the Pocket 2 with this as well so it will likely be bluetooth for that one.

If they do come back with a new camera it would be hilarious if they announced it had RAW and was being released on April 1st. This forum would turn up outside their door like this. With a lone voice pleading to think of the children.

The LANC controllers don't trigger the autofocus but you can get to it via the SBUS interface. It needn't cost a massive amount of money and I've got one of these cheap (£7.50) pistol grips to take apart to house something experimental that will work. They can be mounted on the side like that Ursa one with a simple adapter or you could even fit the rosette if you wanted to get fancy. I haven't got a BMMCC to test it with unfortunately but I'm sure I can get round that when the time comes.

Hope they've got a faster 3D printer than mine then, otherwise with all those backorders.....well.....

They need to up their comms game as well. For stills, a dedicated plug on wifi and ethernet ftp module needs to happen. For video (but stills too) they obviously have to sort out that remote shooting issue crippling the video to only recording 720p. With that in mind, I think I've got an idea for a (slightly clunky) solution for it of sorts for the current cameras that I'll share when I've tested it.

This is Sony's demonstration of their global shutter sensors versus rolling shutter sensors (presumably also Sony ones ) This one is a comparison between two board cameras with global and rolling shutter sensors. RED's Motion Mount can be quite informing about how this stuff plays with the same camera as it has enables their cameras to have variable ND but also gives them two global shutter modes, which they refer to as Square and Soft. So in demos like this - which is a repeatable pan under motion control - you are able to see the effect on the same camera between ND only (i.e. rolling) and the two different types of global shutter. And from the same user, the effect when filming motion from a locked off camera.

Sigh.... The actual real demonstrable health issues being created by the ubiquity of Wifi have nothing to do with RF. Obesity and diabetes caused by the sedentary lifestyle that the internet has created, burgeoning mental health issues driven by and stimulated by social media addiction....and on and on. Those are the real problems that Wifi brings. Sitting further away from your router isn't going to solve them any time soon. I'm going to miss these sort of insights. Definitely out now.

I edited my comment because I couldn't be arsed arguing the toss with you about a product that you have absolutely zero knowledge of. I haven't changed my mind about that one iota with your additional comments. Seriously, I would rather hit myself over the head with my router than debate this with you. So I'll just step out of it now thanks.

EDIT>>>>> Nope, not today <<<<<<<

There is a nine page thread on BMCUser about firmware requests that people want. Nine pages. Six months before its even come out. We're positively like a Zen Buddhist commune in here by comparison

I've had to reinforce my shelves recently I think its been largely a question of processing grunt but that variable is always heading in their favour so I suppose its a question of when the two collide. Might well be a long way off yet but they've got the building blocks.

Yes.

In a similar if far cheaper vein (£140 shipped) is this. I got one last week and its basically a poor man's Terradek Vidiu. Takes HDMI input and sends it out wirelessly (or wired) on its own network or via your existing router and as it just uses standard protocols you can monitor it on whatever device you want be it phone, tablet, laptop or even TV using whatever app you prefer (VLC or whatever). Its also able to be used as a source for tablet based live video production apps such as Terradek's Live:AIR so you can use a couple of them to create a wireless 2 camera live production setup. It can also be used to stream your camera out to YouTube and Facebook etc. They also do a version with a built in 4G cellular modem so you can do that direct if you are away from a wired or wireless internet connection. I'll do a proper thread about it at some point when I've got a minute. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/DHL-Free-Shipping-MPEG-4-H-264-HD-Wireless-wifi-HDMI-Encoder-for-IPTV-Live-Stream/32776561405.html?spm=2114.10010108.100009.3.865320596hVfrL&traffic_analysisId=recommend_2037_null_null_null&scm=1007.13482.95643.0&pvid=aa3aaa46-9a5e-474b-8e6d-3ebc69e07119&tpp=1

In the late 80s, I was in a junk shop that had bought up a load of stock of a music shop that had gone bust and he had at least a dozen Sequential Circuits Pro One synths stacked up. At the time analogue synths were gathering dust on the shelves of music shops everywhere and particularly mono synths but I always liked the Pro One so as he was selling them for £70 each I bought one for me and one for my mate as I knew he'd fancy having one at that price. Obviously as I was buying two, I got the price down to £50 each. The shopkeeper was trying to get me to buy 10 of them and said I could have them for £400 for the lot. I passed because a) I didn't have that kind of money on me (or in the bank!) b) I couldn't have fitted them in the car and c) who the hell would I ever sell the other 8 too? Just checked eBay now and well..... When I was a youth, we all started off using our Dad's Zenith Es or Praktica MTL3s (they loved those eastern bloc cameras!) then when it was time to get our own everyone went Japanese and the Pentax ME Super was hugely popular at the time. Looking on eBay, I think that might be the best route in to hoover up some bargains as there are loads of them for sale that include a couple of lenses into the bargain. If your GF begins to worry about the lens collection growing, I always find its a good idea to have this photograph to hand for perspective on just how restrained you're actually being. I'm in the queue for one. I was seriously considering a GH5 and then the GH5s threw a spanner in the works and had me going round in circles about choosing between them. The unexpectedly low price of the P2 means that by the time it comes out I can probably get that and a used GH5 for roughly the price of the GH5s on its own. Canon could release that camera you want tomorrow but you know they won't! The real dark horses for me in the next few years could be Sigma as they've filed a patent for what would amount to a Foveon sensor for video. That would be something genuinely different and they have their own lens lineup (as well as expertise in everyone else's AF) to marry it to.

It ended up costing £140. I've seen them cheaper but it is in very decent condition so I'm not complaining ! I'm going to Japan next month for the first time in just on 20 years so I'm going to try and root out a couple more ais lenses from my youth like the 35mm f2 and the 200mm f4. They won't necessarily be any cheaper but my experience of buying used in Japan is that they are almost without exception in far better condition. That Sigma has a lot more vibe in it than that grab would suggest when you get in closer by the way. I think its a very decent choice for a standard lens on the Pocket4K as with the smaller crop it won't be far off 55mm equivalent FOV.

Very brief trip to London where I decided I wasn't going to trawl around used shops and buy a lens. And I succeeded in that I didn't buy a lens but two. Both quite different and many years apart in age. Had about 10 seconds to put them both on a GX80 and take a short clip in the street with each before I got on the train. First up is one that @jonpais turned me on to which is the Sigma 30mm f1.4 native MFT Next up is saying hello to an old friend 20 years after I sold the first one I had which is the Nikon 105mm f2.5 AIS The discount on the Sigma paid for almost half the price of the Nikon. Which is the story I'll be sticking to when I get home.

https://github.com/abbrev/tascam-rc-10-remote

The remote port protocol for the Tascam has been discovered so a small arduino, a button and a couple of 2.5mm cables can send the start/stop commands simultaneously in the LANC format to the camera and the Tascam format to the recorder. Obviously, this would also work with any other LANC camera so BMPCC etc would be equally applicable beneficiaries Oh...and for LANC also read WiFi so the same stunt could be pulled for the usual suspects from Panasonic.

And if you want to sync start recording on that DR60mkii with the C100 then naturally I have a cunning plan for that...